Hominins on Flores, Indonesia, by one million years ago
- A. Brumm, Gitte Margrethe Jensen, M. Storey
- Geography, GeologyNature
- 1 April 2010
It is shown using 40Ar/39Ar dating that an ignimbrite overlying the artefact layers at Wolo Sege was erupted 1.02 ± Myr ago, providing a new minimum age for hominins on Flores, which predates the disappearance from the Soa Basin of ‘pygmy’ Stegodon sondaari and Geochelone spp.